Download or read book Badge 1 Memoirs of a Boston Cop written by Frank De Sario and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank DeSario shares his almost forty year career in a vivid account of his experiences with the Boston Police department. The Mafia, the gangland slayings, the Combat Zone, bussing and the resulting racial issues and riots, the thugs and the corruption are all discussed with a first hand look at the events. Frank also shares the glamorous side of his job which included escorting high profile celebrities, religious leaders and political leaders during their visits to the Boston area. The photos are vivid but give the reader a close look at what it was like to be a cop in Boston during the last four decades. He proudly covets his #1 badge as a symbol of strength, integrity, honor and pride.
Download or read book Badge 1 written by Frankie DeSario and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobsters. Corruption. The Winter Hill Gang. Informants. The life of a Boston Cop. Frank DeSario offers a vivid account of his forty-year career in the Boston Police Department. From true stories of the Mafia and gangland slayings, to bussing, race riots, thugs and corruption, Frank reveals what it was like to have a ringside seat at events that made history; the TPF, the Boston Busing Crisis, Barboza and Whitey Bulger. Along the way, he also touches on the more glamorous side of the job--including acting as the trusted protector and escort to celebrities, religious and political leaders, and other high-profile visitors to the city of Boston: The Pope, Miss Shirley McLaine and Tony DeMarco. Engrossing and revealing from the first page to the last, here is a real-world look at life on the beat and behind the badge.
Download or read book Boston Police written by Robert Anthony and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as the oldest police department in the country, the Boston Police Department has bravely protected and served the Boston community since 1838. Over the years, the departments efforts to keep the public safe have been supported by the many divisions and special units that are prepared to respond to a wide range of public safety issues. Photographs of the harbor patrol unit, mounted unit, K-9 unit, homicide unit, and motorcycle unit take readers behind the badge to witness the exciting and sometimes dangerous situations that officers encounter when protecting the Hub. Honoring this great department and the men and women who have served it, Boston Police: Behind the Badge celebrates the long and noteworthy history of the city and department from days long gone by.
Download or read book The Passage written by Phillip M. Vitti and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An informative and impressionistic account of one Boston Police Department undercover cop's experiences in the 1960s era. Time travel with 'Mike Russo' through the underbelly of organized crime played out against the back drop of Boston's once infamous Combat Zone to the kaleidoscopic and oft violent world of social protest."--book jacket flap.
Download or read book The Streets Belong to Us written by Anne Gray Fischer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the criminal legal system. In The Streets Belong to Us—a searing history of women and police in the modern United States—Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion of police power. The enormous discretionary power that police officers wield to surveil, target, and arrest anyone they deem suspicious was tested, legitimized, and legalized through the policing of women's sexuality and their right to move freely through city streets. Throughout the twentieth century, police departments achieved a stunning consolidation of urban authority through the strategic discretionary enforcement of morals laws, including disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and other prostitution-related misdemeanors. Between Prohibition in the 1920s and the rise of "broken windows" policing in the 1980s, police targeted white and Black women in distinct but interconnected ways. These tactics reveal the centrality of racist and sexist myths to the justification and deployment of state power. Sexual policing did not just enhance police power. It also transformed cities from segregated sites of "urban vice" into the gentrified sites of Black displacement and banishment we live in today. By illuminating both the racial dimension of sexual liberalism and the gender dimension of policing in Black neighborhoods, The Streets Belong to Us illustrates the decisive role that race, gender, and sexuality played in the construction of urban police regimes.
Download or read book Boston Mob written by Marc Songini and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty people for business and pleasure. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington D.C. and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City. From the tragic legacy of the Kennedy family to the Winter Hill-Charlestown feud, the fall of the New England Mafia and the rise of Whitey Bulger, Mark Songini's Boston Mob is a saga of treachery, murder, greed, and the survival of ruthless men pitted against legal systems and police forces.
Download or read book On the Stroll written by William Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was appointed to the Boston Police Department in August of 1968. That was the beginning of a 32-year career as one of Boston' finest. Those were good years to be a policeman. I had a ringside seat watching Boston be restored to a world class city. Comparatively speaking it is smaller than one would think, squeezing about 600 thousand people into 45 square miles. Greater Boston encompasses over three and a half million people. Boston is a major attraction, renowned for its many varied accouterments. Boasting some of the finest restaurants, historic and cultural magnets, museums and a medley of colleges and hospitals. Millions of people lived, worked and visited "Old Beantown" during my years. I patrolled, served and strolled its streets during the years 1968 through 2000. Being a police officer provides a unique perspective of good and bad. In writing of my experiences, I hoped to share an inside look into what really happens. I have randomly selected a pastiche of incidents for the reader to consume. Some of them garnered national attention. My stories are true and this author has attempted to portray them accurately. Much of what is written is reliant upon my memory. It would be impossible to be all-inclusive. Many of the characters I have written about have passed away. For those who remain, in some instances, I have chosen to fictionalize their true identity. Many who read this book will recognize some of the names and incidents I have included. In doing so, I have revealed much of what is known only to those on the inside. A lot of time has passed since I retired, and things have changed dramatically. The thing that doesn't ever change, is a police officer's mission: to serve and protect. Not only in Boston but across the entire country. Every day, somewhere in America, a police officer is rushing to help someone in distress or peril. Every time a police officer puts on a uniform and pins on a badge, they enter a world of the unpredictable. Every day we read about a police officer, somewhere who has found themselves in a life altering situation. In retrospect, I am proud to have been a member of the Boston Police Department. I also cherish being fortunate to have been born and raised in one of the great cities of the world; my hometown Boston.
Download or read book Boston Police written by Robert E. Anthony and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as the oldest police department in the country, the Boston Police Department has bravely protected and served the Boston community since 1838. Over the years, the department's efforts to keep the public safe have been supported by the many divisions and special units that are prepared to respond to a wide range of public safety issues. Photographs of the harbor patrol unit, mounted unit, K-9 unit, homicide unit, and motorcycle unit take readers "behind the badge" to witness the exciting and sometimes dangerous situations that officers encounter when protecting the Hub. Honoring this great department and the men and women who have served it, Boston Police: Behind the Badge celebrates the long and noteworthy history of the city and department from days long gone by.
Download or read book Badge of Valor written by Brent K. Ashabranner and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the planning and creation of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and profiles some of those police officers who gave their lives in the line of duty.
Download or read book Burden of the Badge written by Michael S. East and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and powerful true story of two brave men whose lives became intertwined in 1992. From the bloody jungles of Viet Nam, to the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay, to the chambers of the United States Supreme Court and to the inner rooms of Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatric unit - read all about it. One, a former combat marine and FBI street agent and the other, the Chief of Police of the Pleasant Point Indian Reservation combined forces with the RCMP to defeat a major smuggling ring controlled by War Chief Francis Boots of the infamous Mohawk Warrior Society. Insight is given into a problem suffered by the street agent associated with alcohol dependence, PTSD, his fall into perdition, his glimpse of heaven and a return to his faith in God.
Download or read book Behind the Badge in River City written by Don Dupay and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pimps, prostitutes, safe crackers, murderers, drug addicts, thieves and thugs-and of course, the Portland Police Bureau-Don DuPay introduces them all in this candid, entertaining and brutal look at the stark realities of police work. DuPay, a 17 year veteran of the force, has written an intimate memoir that will take the reader on an unforgettable journey, pulling back the curtain to reveal the true and shocking machinations that fueled police culture, during his time. It's a world of danger and contradictions, where officers are torn between their duties and the demands of survival. Police officers get dressed, strap on a gun and go to war. It's a different war every day but it's still a war. In this unforgettable story, the reader is never left to choose between the good guys or the bad guys. DuPay keeps it real as he wrestles with a vocation that nearly destroyed him. DuPay provides, startling revelations about the corruption, burn-out and heartache that he experienced during his time on the force-dynamics which remain a common pattern in long-term law enforcement careers.
Download or read book Character and Cops written by Edwin J. Delattre and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delattre implicitly promoting the "bad apple" theory of police corruption and brutality, discusses how to promote good values in individual police officers through training and discusses how those values should lead officers to act in a variety of situations. This new edition adds a chapter on terrorism and policing, complaining that police lack the tools to effectively prosecute the "War on Terrorism" and examining issues of racial profiling.
Download or read book Son of a Gun written by Justin St. Germain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old West murder mystery,” the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Yet years later he’s still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop? Justin’s journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. Praise for Son of a Gun “[A] spectacular memoir . . . calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. R. Moehringer’s Tender Bar and Nick Flynn’s Another Bull____ Night in Suck City. All three are about boys becoming men in a broken world. . . . [What] might have been . . . in the hands of a lesser writer, the book’s main point . . . [is] amplified from a tale of personal loss and grief into a parable for our time and our nation. . . . If the brilliance of Son of a Gun lies in its restraint, its importance lies in the generosity of the author’s insights.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review “[A] gritty, enthralling new memoir . . . St. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty. . . . In his understated, eloquent way, St. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. And like the author, you will mourn her forever.”—NPR “If St. Germain had stopped at examining his mother’s psycho-social risk factors and how her murder affected him, this would still be a fine, moving memoir. But it’s his further probing—into the culture of guns, violence, and manhood that informed their lives in his hometown, Tombstone, Ariz.—that transforms the book, elevating the stakes from personal pain to larger, important questions of what ails our society.”—The Boston Globe “A visceral, compelling portrait of [St. Germain’s] mother and the violent culture that claimed her.”—Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book Badge of Honor written by Walter L. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter L. Harris, Jr. fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a Detroit police officer on September 19, 1994. For the next nine-and-a-half years, he served meritoriously in some of Detroit's most dangerous precincts and units, including vice. He joined the Executive Protection Unit (EPU) and served for five years with Chief of Police Isaiah McKinnon, Mayor Dennis Archer, and finally Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Badge of Honor: Blowing the Whistle, Walter Harris's first book, is a chronicle of his service in law enforcement and a testament to the honor and integrity that he brought to the badge. It also offers a thoughtful guide to anyone in government or the private sector who might consider blowing the whistle on corruption.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionist written by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni͡azʹ) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
